National Republican., 1887-02-21

hundred and eighteen million, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollarsY Where are
that is left Of them into your eyes It would not
make you wink twice. All, my friends, then
very certainly your comforts OF surrounding
cannot keep back the old archer. You cannot
charm him with music, or dazzle him with
plate. or decoy him with pictures, or bribe him
with Your money.
which you cannot keep? AS long as you have
clothes and food and shelter and education for
yourselves and your children and the means
and tug and sweat and wear yourself out for
that which cannot satisfy. Whole Hocks OF
crows feet on your temples and cheeks before
are ten Years older than You ought to be,
you into the future world even
shut amer YOU are dead. And yet y You m hold on
to this world with the avidity Of the miser who
persisted in having his bonds and mortgages
and notes of hand In the bosom OF his dressing
gown while he was, dying and in the last mo-
ment held his parchment in such tight grip
that the undertaken after death must almost
break the mans fingers In order TO yet the
Men are actually making that choice, while
there are others who have done far differently.
Iuher s some e one s. said: There's s no use trying trying
| to do that-that Dutch beast cares nothing for
eoida When they tfisdoby giving him
~p in his pulpit ana csS o w
dom, eolored with my own blood" These
men, chose Christ amid great prosecutions;
| Christianity seems TO- be popular. who are
ashamed of Christ, and not willing to take the
hardships-the seeming hardships-of His re-
crash of the worlds demolition they shall
find that In all these years they were turning
their backs upon the palaces of heaven, scra5.
| bling on the door OF this worlds treasure
| house. the saliva of a terrific lunacy on their
lips.h0rribly and Overwhelmingly playing
Once more l say to you that those meu play
the fool who. while they admit the righteous
ness OF religion, set 1t down for future attend
apee, Do you know how many times the
hundred times. One OF tho Shortest words in
| the Bible, ana yet one OF the grandest in mean
ing and ramifcations. When does the Bible
does the Bible say that God will forgive J
Saly sSis time attend d.! % ,tnS ,ae mat
"now" melts away as easily as a snowflake
In the evening rain. Where's the "now" OF
the dead of last year? the, now Of the dead
week the "now" of the dead of yesterday
Time picked it up in its beak and ilew away
with IT,. Swammerdam and other naturalists
tell usthere are insects which within the, space
OF one minute are born, fulfill their mission,
celebrate their nuptals, and die; but this
wonderful "now" is more short'liyed than
| u
Is It's grave. If men catch it at all, IL is with
quick clutch. Millions OF men have lost
lheir soul immortal because Q, they did not
ily OF that one word. All the strategic powers
| of hell are exerted in trying to subtract from
the energy and emphasis Of that word. They
II is only wGra d Of thTSe nIsS letters while
small word and take this other grand one
and 80 men say "Giye US u.s. tomorrow Pm and and
two words is the APpian way of death,
and a, great multitude, throng that
road, lostling and elbowing each
For how much would you walk the edge OF the
roof of your house? For how how much would
| you come out ON the most dangerous peak oi
| The MatterhoEn and wave your cap? lousay
"No money could induce me to do It," And
| yet you stand to-day with one foot on crumb
/ ling moment and the other foot lifted, MOI
the distance between you and the bottom O.
the depth beneath you no plummet can meas
| uTc, no arithmetic calculate, no wingof light
ming cleave. And yet the Bible tells us tha
unless a man has a new heart he cannot &C
into heaven, and some of you are not seeking
for that new heart In Mexico sometimes thj
ground suddenly opens aud a man standlnl
tance. But, o If to-day, at your feet ther,
should open the chasms Of the lost world, how
you would hing yourself back and hold th'
nowm
Igreet you to-day, my brother, In the very gait
OF eternity. Some of us may live longer, ant
lome of us may live q shorter time; but, at thu
longest, life Is so short that feel we all stanC
Oh the doorsill OF the great future Tho mex
step-all the angels of God cannot undo thu
rising or q falling2 The righteous go up
The Saviour helps them. Mlnisterlng spirit
meet them. The doors of Paradise open t
receive them. Upl up up o, what agranI
thing II is to die with strong iaitl
in God, like that which stonewan Jack